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“We've focused so long on ideals of freedom that it is this very belief that oppresses us. We all want to be free, yet we find ways to forfeit liberty to our own impulses, to our own consumption.” quote by As I Lay Dying — Download Open image

““We've focused so long on ideals of freedom that it is this very belief that oppresses us. We all want to be free, yet we find ways to forfeit liberty to our own impulses, to our own consumption.””

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We've built our confidence. On broken dreams now left for dead. Yet we've been condemned. To chase these dreams that never end.

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